10,000 Hits Already !! January 9, 2008

I’m quite excited as I actually saw it displaying the 10000, being one of those weird people who would drive around the block a couple of times just to see the mileometer reading in the car reach some “special” number. I screamed with frustration once when I just missed 12345 scroll past, 123456 just seemed such a long way away ….

I must admit I had absolutely no idea how many people would read this Blog when I started it almost a month ago. Starting a Blog was something that was mentioned and suggested to me a few times when I attended and presented at the Unconference at Oracle OpenWorld last year.

Now I must admit, I don’t really know whether 10,000 visits in less than a month, including the Christmas Holidays, is actually a lot or not, but if someone asked me a month ago how long I thought it would take me to reach 10,000 hits, I would have guessed (and hoped somewhat) in 6 months or so. So it’s certainly a lot more hits than I ever thought I would get at this early stage.

So to have generated so much interest, so many comments, there’s over 150 although lots are mine I know 🙂 and so many emails is really really, umm what’s the right word, I guess “nice”.

So thank you all for your interest and involvement !!

If someone can give me a bit of warning just before 20,000 is reached, I would appreciate it !!

I love the odometer photos, especially as it was taken while travelling at 50+ MPH 🙂

I’m actually 42 years old (for the next 6 months or so), here’s hoping I get to understand what the “answer” to life is soon 😉

I’ll be on “the other side of the world” in June presenting my 2 day Index Internals seminar in various countries for Oracle University (Belgium, UK and The Netherlands confirmed at this stage) so I might get to meet some of you then. Just had my photo taken for the promotional flyers, yikes !!!

“I love the odometer photos, especially as it was taken while travelling at 50+ MPH :)”

Heh. Well, actually, my speedometer is about five miles per hour off at that speed, so it was probably closer to 45. And, you can see i was slowing down. As it so happens, i was getting off I-75 onto exit 78, when i was working at DaimlerChrysler.

Tee hee. I had my camera sitting on the airbag/horn cover that the steering wheel goes around. Which of course would explain why the picture is on a tilt when i was getting off on an exit. 🙂

The camera is even a more ridiculous idea of recording this most auspicious moment, but i assume (yes, i know) that while people are willing to click on a picture, clicking on a video takes even a higher degree of boredom. Hmm.. though, that might save on the bandwidth.

I just had the car worked on. I’m beginning to doubt that i’ll be recording 246810.0 or even 2345678.9, whilst i’m hardly over 133k now.